POPE BENEDICT XVI RECEIVED THE MASTER OF THE ORDER
IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE
On March 11, 2011 His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, received the Master of the Order and his Vicar in a private audience. The goal of the meeting was to talk to the Pope about the main themes addressed by the last General Chapter and about the status of the preaching of the Order at the on-set of the Master’s mandate. During the meeting, the Pope asked many questions about our placements, formation, our Provinces’ teaching engagements, and the general situation of the Order by individual regions. At the time when a new Pontifical Council has just been appointed, the Pope highly encouraged the Order to keep working on those dimensions of our charisma of friars preachers, which best contribute to the evangelization. He specially highlighted the following dimensions: careful attention to the life-search and the spiritual quest of our contemporaries; the importance of studying and teaching Theology in line of the solid tradition of reflection initiated by Thomas Aquinas; Theology’s essential spiritual dimension; the vital bond between Theology and worship; the particular challenge to Theology posit by the dialogue with new cultures and sciences – a clear sign of our relation with the world; the role of statistics in evangelization; appropriate care given to the human, religious and theological dimensions in initial formation; and the hope that our evangelizing efforts will give our contemporaries the possibility and the joy of a personal relationship with Jesus. (IDI, April 2011 – N° 491)
THE MASTER OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS VISITS
ST. DOMINIC’S PRIORY
Fr. Bruno Cadoré, OP, Master of the Order of Preachers visits the Dominicans of Our Lady of the Rosary Province in Macau and Hong Kong on January 18-22, 2011. The program of the visit to St. Dominic’s Priory and Studentate in Macau is as follows:
January 18 (Tuesday):
- 18:00Â Â Arrival, Hong Kong International Airport
- 21:00   Arrival in Macau and Greetings to the Community at St. Dominic’s
January 19 (Wednesday):
- 06:30Â Â Meditation and Morning Prayer
- 09:30Â Â Meeting with the Provincial and Formation Councils (Saint Paul School)
- 12:30Â Â Lunch
- 15:00Â Â Meeting with Students
- 18:15  Evening Prayer and Eucharist
- 19:00Â Â Dinner
- 20:30Â Â Socials
January 20 (Thursday):
- 06:30Â Â Meditation, Eucharist with Morning Prayer
- 09: 30Â Â Visits to School of Christian Studies, University of Saint Joseph
- 10:30Â Â Visit to the Bishop of Macau
- 11:30Â Â Short Macau Tour
- 12:30Â Â Lunch